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With nearly 2000 entries, the project not only caught the interest of the music community at large, but generated some truly wonderful reinterpretations of the stirring original material. And now the ten winning remixes have just been announced.
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CBS just got to tour Target's new office space on Nicollet Mall. As you may recall, this space was the old location for Let It Be Records, and a bit of a disagreement transpired when the store's owner Ryan Cameron wanted to reclaim all of his origina...

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Color Me Obsessed screened in the Twin Cities twice in 2011, and comes out on DVD on November 20. Rolling Stone has unveiled an exclusive inside look at the movie. In this clip, actor-director Jeff Corbett recalls catching the band in New Haven back ...

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Dave Pirner has lived in New Orleans since the late '90s, but it's only now that the Big Easy's musical gumbo has truly soaked into a Soul Asylum album. "I was entertaining an obsession with jazz music," the 48-year-old recalls, regarding a new trac...

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Tucked away in a back corner of a coffee shop in the Bryn Mawr neighborhood, Mankwe Ndosi sits barefoot and cross-legged on an armchair, looking as natural and self-assured as a cat. She has opaque, solemn eyes that make her smiles seem serious, and...

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Gimme Noise spoke to MC Big Zach about the new album and bringing their Sights & Sounds to festivals.
You're one of the few artists in hip-hop whose releases in
different groups outnumbers your own solo material. What draws you to
the group dynami...

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A lot of hard work and a little bit of fate has gone a long way for the Midnight River Choir. They tout their near-mythic beginnings unabashedly: the band from Texas Hill country was serendipitously named by a stranger who overheard the four musician...

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With Election Day just over a month away, many us are probably growing tired of the endless stream of campaign commercials and relentless sloganeering ringing out from most media outlets. But one of the definite advantages of any election year are th...

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Dear Fan,
I've been the core of an act with someone for 10-plus years. We were pretty loosey-goosey on the money end of things for a long time, mostly because there wasn't much of it. I was putting up the front money, but I wasn't losing much, so I ...

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Grizzly Bear
with Lower Dens
First Avenue Mainroom
October 1, 2012
In more ways than one, it felt like Grizzly Bear pulled out all the stops at First Avenue on Monday night. There were, of course, all the vocal acrobatics and complex arrangements th...

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Mike Mictlan performing with Doomtree at Lollapalooza.
Without much preamble, Mike Mictlan released his first solo project in four years, fittingly titled SNAXXX!, on the Doomtree Bandcamp page as a free download. It's a grimy affair, largely pro...

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From releasing her latest album to high praise and facing unexpected kerfuffles, Amanda Palmer has been quite hot topic this fall. The alt-rock, punk cabaret singer burst onto the scene in the early 2000s as one half of the Dresden Dolls and has spen...

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Yasiin Bey (AKA Mos Def)
with Toki Wright and This Debris
Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis
Monday, October 10, 2012
Yasiin Bey returned to the Guthrie for his second headlining gig since playing in 2010, this time with Toki Wright and his full ban...

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Within the realm of fluid-enhanced metal, the overwhelming live presence of Gwar is unrivaled. And thus, it was a sad day indeed when guitarist Cory Smoot, who portrayed Flattus Maximus in the band, was found dead in the band's tour bus after they le...

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Thee Oh Sees
with Ty Segall and Trin Tran
Turf Club, St. Paul
September 30, 2012
Right from the time Thee Oh Sees took to the stage on Sunday night, it felt like anarchy in the Turf Club. The crowd -- or at least the front third of the room--explode...

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Glen Hansard
First Avenue, Minneapolis
September 29, 2012
At the start of Glen Hansard's enthralling two-hour set at First Avenue on Saturday night, the Irish singer/songwriter took a moment to say sorry to the crowd: "I feel like apologizing th...

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The Chalice, with La Manchita, A. Wolf and Her Claws, and Audio Perm
7th St Entry, Minneapolis
9/28/12
Judging from the excited vibe of all present at the sold-out Chalice release show at the Entry on Friday, a group like this is something local...

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Michael Kiwanuka with Bahamas and Yuna
Fine Line Music Cafe, Minneapolis
September 28, 2012
A series of burgeoning musical stars showcased their talents at a packed Fine Line on Friday night, as current Mercury Music Prize nominee Michael Kiwanu...

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After capturing the attention of the Twin Cities music community with their enthralling, electro-rock odyssey, Bodies Of Water, in 2008, Solid Gold has kept all of us waiting patiently for a proper follow-up. Other than releasing a few random singles...